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N. D. COCHRAN EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 560 S. PEORIA ST. CHICAGO. ILI. Tplpnhnnpi Editorial, Monroe 3H etvJ"UitV CIrcni,tOB, Monroe 3S36 SUBSCRIPTION By Carrier - In Chi cago. 30 cents a Month. By Mall. United. States and Canada, 13.80 a Tear Entered as second-class matter April 21. 1914. at the postofflce at Chicago. I1L. under the Act of March 3, 1879. THOSE REBEL MILK WAGON DRIVERS. Under head of "Is It Right?" Manufacturers' News says: "The milk wagon drivers have se-: cured $21 a week marked up from $19. . "Why should a driver a position requiring no "more intelligence than is needed to drive a sedate and elder ly horse and deposit milk on a win dow get more than "A grocery wagon driver. r "A window cleaner who does just as much work and whose occupation is hazardous at $65 a month. "A salesman in department "store, or ' ' "A lawyer, whose average income in Chicago is less than'a milk wagon driver?" And organized labor puts it anoth er way: Why don't these low-paid workers organize like, the milk driv ers and force their pay up just like the milk wagon drivers? MAKE INCOME TAX THIEVES PAY PREPAREDNESS BILL! Pre paredness must be paid for. It is goin& to cost nearly $200, 000,000 this year. The only question now is: "Who yill pay the bill?" .' Basil Manly's investigation of the United States income tax frauds as published in this newspaper, shows "where all of the needed millions and more can be raised without resort to new taxation and without burden to any honest man. If Secretary McAdoo will collect any substantial, part of the $320,000, 000 income tax which annually is being evaded, the entire preparedness bill can be paid quickly and easily' The nation's answer to the demand for more revenue preparedness must be: "Make the tax thieves pay the preparedness bill." HAVE A HEART.t The glories of war are departing, you can take it from any of the soldiers in the "Har vard regiment" The-unfeeling bilreuacracy is mak ing it as hard as possible for these student patriots to become real sol diers. Official red tapers Nare crushing youthful enthusiasm and trying to fashion Young America in the mould of Mars. They've taken away their neck ties! As his curling forelock to Napo leon Bonaparte as his shuffling foot to'vCharlie Chaplin such' is his swell cravat' to a Harvard youth. And now the order has gone forth that neckties must not be worn with, uniforms! President Wilson; or Secretary Baker, or whoever it is-that is com mitting this edica of vandalism - In the name of youth and the Crimson we appeal to you to let those students wear their neckties! Have you no respect for the tradi tions of Hah-vud? o o , A BORDER SONG I dearly love my Uhcje Sam, , I also love my eggs and ham. And if in war I'm shot for Sam,( I'll sorely miss my eggs and ham. Joey. o o GENEROUS VERTIS Vertis Blixenstein was smiling on lady friends in these parts Sunday afternoon Union Cor. of the Gray viHe (I1L) Mercury.